Slow Motion Lightning Video

[Rainmaster]

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[Solid Lifters]

Awesome. You can actually see the lightning bolt start from the ground!

Yep, hard as it seems to imagine, but lightning bolt strikes start from the ground.

 

[Michael88]

How may fps does the camera make?
As far as I know lightning bolts travel with the speed of light and thats mighty fast.

 

[TB]

Top end for the camera is 1200 frames/second, but I'd guess that at that resolution, it's more than likely 600fps.

 

[Michael88]

I dont get it, even with 1200 fp/s a lightning bolt would be way too fast to capture it that good. I mean its speed of light afterall.

 

[Kylehnat]

The light produced from the lightning travels at the speed of light, but the bolt itself does not propagate through the air that quickly.

Edit: Probably worth elaborating: air is a very, very poor thermal and electrical conductor.

 

[Michael88]

...air is a very, very poor thermal and electrical conductor.

Otherwise our world would be full of sh***!

In school I have learned that the electric chain reaction itself travels at speed of light, so thats why I am a bit puzzled.

 

[Solid Lifters]

Lighting bolt strike (discharge of negatively charged particles) is one tenth the speed of light. Lightning (stepped leader) travels one tenth the speed of a lightning bolt strike. Yes, they obviously travel at two different speeds.

EDIT: The speed of lightning is not constant. So, the results are variable. A lot of factors will produce different results. What I said above is a 'typical' or general result of different 'types' of lightning.

 

[Muzaffar]

The video looks pretty cool indeed. Always wondered how an actual lighting strike occurs..... 👍

 

[Rainmaster]

Edit: Probably worth elaborating: air is a very, very poor thermal and electrical conductor.

I'm sick of cables. I want the wireless electricity

 

[Danoff]

I'm sick of cables. I want the wireless electricity

There are other ways to send energy through the air than lightning.

 

[Solid Lifters]

I'm sick of cables. I want the wireless electricity

Get a Tesla coil. They're fun.

 

[TB]

I'm sick of cables. I want the wireless electricity

For $35, it can be yours.

 

[Rainmaster]

wireless electricity is actually exist for years. It's in a transformer of a adapter. but problem is as you state air is not suitable for that kind conductibility.